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I was so happy my copies arrived from @Downingfield, I... Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, my second collection just landed in my house. Critically praised, a Scotsman book of the year, pick up a copy and bring me back to life! amazon.co.uk/dp/0645231819/ #poetry #writing #ireland

Now and then I contemplate, if I had the money at say, 60, how fun it would be to own, host & curate (not manage), a small no-menu, no customization, improv-based, live jazz & folk café bistro 7AM-1AM. Then I also think how much fun the no sneakers no jeans dress code would be.

If you read poetry off a mobile phone as an invited performer, you should be thrown out a window.

I often think how much better it would have been for Ireland if Napoleon had won. So many things would be different, and so much would be fascinating. Also there'd be gazillions of us.

Colleague shared an AI transcription. "Boinkalure." A series of sentences about "pale meat" & one exec says: "We just actually were sitting on the front of the stage a little bit, touching on the sex question for you." The future is here.

I've the pleasure to perform at the amazing Ó'Bhéal go Béal Winter Festival, Sat., Nov. 21, 730 PM, Bolt Studios, Patrick's Quay, Cork. I can't wait. The set will be a riot, & I guarantee fury, song & fire. A pleasure too, to share a stage with Mona Lynch. Cork, Come along!

Milk does not belong in scrambled eggs, nor does it belong in mash potatoes. Both of these things simply require butter, salt, pepper, and plenty of care and gentleness. Milk in mash potatoes is a worse crime than milk in scrambled eggs. Mash should not be a liquid.

Och... Chekov... apnews.com/article/walter-ko…